Kingston ‘health homes’ put Jane Philpott’s vision of primary care to the test | Unpublished
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Publication Date: November 15, 2024 - 07:00

Kingston ‘health homes’ put Jane Philpott’s vision of primary care to the test

November 15, 2024
By the time Dorothyanne Brown got the call from a new primary-care clinic in Kingston, she was getting desperate. The 65-year-old former nurse, who has multiple sclerosis, diabetes and osteoarthritis, had been without a family doctor for more than four years after moving to the eastern Ontario city from the east coast. Managing her own medical care with occasional walk-in clinic visits and virtual nursing services had become, she says, “an absolute nightmare.”


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